Word: oktoberfest
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...prayed that kidnapers would release an eleven-year-old girl being held for ransom near Karlsruhe. The size of the crowds was modest only by John Paul's usual standards. More than half a million braved stiff breezes for a youth Mass at Munich's Oktoberfest grounds...
...send 85,000 Jews to death camps. Rue Copernic made Frenchmen wonder whether violence was once again becoming a factor in their political life, especially since it closely followed explosions set off by right-wing terrorists at the Bologna train station (84 dead, 160 injured) and Munich's Oktoberfest (13 dead, 215 injured). Conditions certainly seemed right for a fascist revival in Western Europe. With work hard to find, restive young people have been growing impatient with prevailing economic models, both capitalist (U.S.) and Communist (U.S.S.R.). For a simplistic few, fascism seems reassuringly regimented. In France and West Germany...
...neofascist groups in most European countries, authorities do not believe they are coordinating their strategy. Still, their increasing boldness is cause for alarm. Right-wing assassins in Italy have killed 88 people so far this year and are now as feared as the leftist Red Brigades. Even before the Oktoberfest bombing, the small neo-Nazi movement in West Germany had stepped up its attacks on immigrant ghettos and Jewish memorials. In Spain, 18 people have been murdered by right-wing terrorists this year, and neo-fascist rallies have been attracting crowds of 20,000 to 30,000. French Historian...
...Oktoberfest 1500" --Greenwood Consort plays German festive songs. At Longy School of Music, 1 Follen St., Cambridge, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets at $2.50 for students. Call 648-3873 for info...
...Oktoberfest 1500"--see Saturday listing; at Horticultural Hall, 300 Mass. Ave., Boston...